🔥 Hades

A Nintendo Game Boy Advance Emulator

Screenshots

Features

Hades is still under heavy development but it aims to have a decent balance between usability, speed and accuracy.

Currently, Hades features:

• Decent accuracy
• Game controller support
• Keys and buttons remapping
• Quick Saves (also known as Save State)
• Real Time Clock (RTC) support
• Color correction

It is the third 🥉 software emulator to pass the AGS Aging Cartridge used to test Game Boy Advance systems.

Run

You can download the latest nightly build for your favorite operating system here.

You need a game ROM and a legitimate GameBoy Advance BIOS or a replacement BIOS.

Start Hades, then click on File -> Open BIOS and select the BIOS (bios.bin) you downloaded above.

You can now play all your favorite games! Click on File -> Open and select the ROM (<game>.gba) you want to run.

Alternatively, you can also drag and drop your GBA rom over hades.exe (Windows only).

Build

The build dependencies are:

• meson
• ninja
• GCC
• SDL2
• OpenGL
• glew
• gtk3

On Ubuntu, you can install all those dependencies with:

$ apt install meson ninja-build gcc libsdl2-dev libglew-dev libgtk-3-dev

On Fedora, you can install all those dependencies with:

$ dnf install meson ninja-build gcc SDL2-devel glew-devel gtk3-devel

To build Hades, run:

git submodule update --init --recursive
meson build
cd build
ninja

Thanks

Special thanks to some invaluable resources while writing Hades:

• GBATEK by Martin Korth
• NanoBoyAdvance by Fleroviux
• gba-tests by Jsmolka
• Cowbite by Tom Happ
• mGBA and mgba-emu/suite by Endrift
• gdkGBA by gdkChan
• Tonc by Cearn
• GBA Cartridge Backup Storage by Dillon Beliveau
• EEPROM Save Type by Dennis H
• Explaining GBA Real-Time Clock (RTC) by Zayd
• Higan for their color correction algorithm (by Talarubi and Near)
• The Hades Icon by Totushi